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There's a Door Yonder
by Susan K. de Vegter → (All Poetry by Susan K. de Vegter)
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What can you do about being used
The ache is unbearable
The feeling...abused
Sticking it out but sensing the grind
Winding and streaming and toking the line
It isn't physical but mental decline
Stepping on forward but falling behind
There's a door yonder it's open for you
Just when you get there it closes too
Love looks in and teases the heart
Giving a beat then tearing it apart
Age taking family with a peeling death knoll
Angel of Mercy has you on hold
Kids all going in separate ways
You left alone to cross out the days
One and the other it goes by so slow
Watching the tides as it ebbs and flows
Seeking the quiet when the heart wants to shout
Wanting and waiting for an easier way out
Sobbing in buckets to please the pain
Hiding in darkness tears power rain
If justice wants mercy when morals recede
Then love can't grow in any of these
Life can be hell and right now its here
Tomorrow will come and so will the fear
Its trying to combat the focus that's stained
When love has been hijacked
When sadness complains
For lonely tired hearts
For women or men
Pain knows no gender when it starts or it ends.

© 2006 Susan Kathryn de Vegter

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 Reviews of "There's a Door Yonder"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 3, 2008
Pain is a gender bender.

Ron


Reviewed by Barbara Smith
Reviewed on May 1, 2008
Susan, this is sad & heart rendering...there's lots of good profound writing in this piece. You've said it so "great!"

Reviewed by Randall Barfield
Reviewed on May 1, 2008
The door is to go through (especially out). No lonely soul who is healthy should sit at home (or stand for that matter) waiting and sighing. Waiting for what? No, a lonely soul should strike back, get out and about, keep so busy there's not a second... I've seen it done.

Reviewed by Lois Christensen
Reviewed on April 30, 2008
There are lots of insights in this poem and taken literally they are all so true. Enjoyed this one, Nicely wrote a going strong. ***********

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on April 30, 2008
A very sad piece, Susan, and your last line says tons.

Reviewed by Paul Berube
Reviewed on April 30, 2008
Very thought provoking write here Sue. A lot of wisdom too and so very well said. God bless and have a wonderful day my friend.

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on April 30, 2008
If only words could calm down aches...but, sometimes, the sole act of writing them down seems to dissipate them like snow under a hot summer sun.

Georg

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on April 29, 2008
You have such insight into the ups and downs of love and it makes your poetry very special,Susan!

ET

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on April 29, 2008
a deeply written poem--i enjoyed your use of language and words

Reviewed on April 29, 2008

I have enjoyed the reading of "There's a Door Yonder" for its poemization and subject dealt; its rhythm, wise ponderings and inspiration.

In respect and admiration,

Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed by Carin Spirit
Reviewed on April 29, 2008
Feelings wrapped in words, this is so real. Thank you for sharing. Warmth and Love, Carin'

Reviewed by Pierre Ortega
Reviewed on April 29, 2008
This is one of your best, I can relate to and feel every line.
Wonderful heartfelt writing. The words you choose allways paint such
a vivid picture of your emotions.

Love,Pierre

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on April 29, 2008
Susan, you nailed this one as you always do when you set out to give us some old fashioned Georga common sense . . . That's why I luvs ya . . .

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on April 29, 2008
Very heartfelt expressions of sadness and pain and you are so right in your closing...the aches of the heart is gender blind.
hugs
Fee

Reviewed by F William Broome
Reviewed on April 29, 2008
In every word and line you had my attention. As I read your lines, and your heartache through words, it gripped me completely. Having never known this kind of heartbreak, I can only imagine the pain of what is described. You took us all the way, and your writing skills continues to amaze.. We have each and all been there in some way.
Thank you for this. - Love, - Bill


Reviewed on April 29, 2008
Susan,

Sadness in these lines - powerfully penned and felt. Well done.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.


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